William F. Johnston, Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drafted while the shaft was

drafted while the shaft was still rising from its Potomac foundation — a lithographer's vision of marble certainty issued in the very decade Manifest Destiny taught the republic to build upward as well as outward

still bleeding

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

Oracle Park at Camden Yards Original Art from Bella Frye

with linen views of the falls

William F. Johnston, Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drafted while the shaft wasWilliam F. Johnston, Governor of Pennsylvania 1848 a Whig portrait of the Keystone State's accidental executive, elevated from the Senate chamber the year Polk's war closed and the slavery question began its slow scald through Pennsylvania's anthracite politics. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic